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veterans are the precious wealth of the party and the country and an important force in promoting china's modernization. veterans' work is related to reform, development, stability and the cause of strengthening the military. on september 13, the state council information office held a series of press conferences on "promoting high-quality development". relevant officials from the ministry of veterans affairs introduced the relevant situation.

pei jinjia, minister of veterans affairs, said that the ministry of veterans affairs focuses on serving economic and social development, national defense and military construction, and is anchored in "making military service a profession respected by the whole society, and veterans people respected by the whole society", continuously promoting reform and innovation, and constantly promoting the high-quality development of veterans' work.

strengthen ideological and political guidance. carry out commendation of advanced models such as national model veterans, and organize activities such as "veterans always follow the party". grandly welcome back and bury the remains of the chinese people's volunteer army martyrs in south korea, and strengthen the construction, management and protection of martyr memorial facilities at home and abroad.

deepen the reform of systems and mechanisms. promote the standardization and regularization of the service and support system, and carry out pilot projects for new occupations of veterans affairs personnel. improve the coordination mechanisms such as departmental special consultations and the "double lists" of practical matters between the military and the local governments, and continue to create a working pattern of military-local coordination, departmental cooperation, top-down linkage, and joint efforts. deepen policy and system research, and improve and perfect various laws and policies.

vigorously serve the strengthening of the country and the military. integrate into major national strategies, introduce encouraging and supporting measures, polish the brand of volunteer services, and guide retired soldiers to actively participate in tasks such as rural revitalization, ecological protection, stabilizing and developing border areas, and disaster relief. keep up with the pace of national defense and military reform, actively serve the troops in preparing for war, improve and optimize the emergency response mechanism of the national support system, strengthen the construction of support forces such as preferential treatment hospitals, homes of honor, and military supply stations, promote the smooth transfer of retired soldiers and wounded and disabled soldiers, and continue to carry out support and co-construction activities to help solve the worries of officers and soldiers.

we will focus on optimizing service support. we will emphasize fairness and justice, and adopt various methods such as examination and assessment, direct placement, etc. to properly place retired military personnel. we will innovate and optimize education and training, broaden employment channels, improve taxation, finance and other preferential policies to support entrepreneurship, and strive to build a broad stage for retired military personnel to display their talents and help transform military human resources. we will strengthen the construction of service centers (stations).

ma feixiong, vice minister of the ministry of veterans affairs, said: "it is the unshirkable political responsibility of all local departments and levels to receive and resettle veterans, provide good services and guarantees, provide good education and management, ensure that their roles are played and their rights and interests are protected." since the 20th national congress of the communist party of china, the ministry of veterans affairs has promoted the promulgation of the "regulations on the resettlement of veterans", formulated a series of resettlement policy documents, and improved the standardization of work, focusing on the new situation of linking military and local policy and system reforms; established and improved a work mechanism for batch transfer and classified resettlement in response to new changes such as the increased frequency of military retirement and the optimization of scale and structure; continued to improve "sunshine resettlement" and innovatively carried out "through train" resettlement in response to the new requirements for better promoting the transformation of "military talents" to "local talents"; and explored resettlement potential, broadened resettlement channels, strengthened treatment guarantees, and improved service measures in an effort to make veterans feel more fulfilled.

veterans service centers (stations) at all levels are bridges and ties that directly connect veterans. at present, six levels of veterans service centers (stations) have been built across the country, from national to village (community). gao haibin, head of the ideological and political and rights protection department of the ministry of veterans affairs, said that they will further identify the points of convergence and focus for deepening reforms, and effectively serve and protect the vast number of veterans.

wang zhongcheng, director of the department of supporting the military and preferential treatment of the ministry of veterans affairs, said that unity between the military, government, and civilians is the magic weapon for success, and the ministry of veterans affairs attaches great importance to giving full play to the unique advantages of supporting the military and civilians, helping to strengthen the military and serve the preparation for war. in recent years, the ministry of veterans affairs has introduced a series of measures to continuously consolidate and develop unity between the military, government, and civilians.

the preferential card is a symbol of honor for veterans and other preferential treatment recipients, and a certificate for preferential treatment, and has always attracted much attention. wang zhongcheng said that all levels and departments attach great importance to the preferential card work, and have done a lot of work around empowerment and efficiency, convenience and efficiency; the majority of enterprises and social organizations that are enthusiastic about supporting the military and preferential treatment have actively responded to the government's call and tried their best to provide preferential treatment for card holders.

at present, the national unified preferential programs have covered many aspects such as finance, communications, express delivery, refueling, and air travel, and will be gradually expanded and standardized in the future.

people's daily (page 03, september 16, 2024)